How to migrate Zen Cart to Shopify with LitExtension

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How to migrate ZEN CART TO SHOPIFY Using LitExtension tool

Transcript of How to migrate Zen Cart to Shopify with LitExtension

How to migrateZEN CART TO SHOPIFY

Using LitExtension tool

Shopping cart migration tool by LitExtension

Shopping cart data migration tools by LitExtension help web developers and online business owner transfer data from cart to cart successfully

Zen Cart to Shopify migration tool: http://litextension.com/shopify-migration/zencart-to-shopify-migration.html

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How it works?

How is it?

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Which data migrated from Zen Cart to Shopify?

Customer Review

Product € Tax

Order

SEO URL

Customer password

Custom field

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PROCESS

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Setup

Preparation

Enter License Key

Migration

I. PREPARATION1. For Source Store & Target Store

If Source Store or Target Store is self-hosted:• Please ensure you have the right permission to upload files.• It must not block access from any third party IP.• Source Store and Target Store can operate normally during migration as it requires

a very limited resource for the process.• PHP Compatibility: PHP 4.x or later.• It is strongly recommended to backup Target Store first.

If Source Store or Target Store is SaaS (example: Shopify, Bigcommerce, Volusion … )• Please ensure you have the permission to login backend of these stores.

2. For Cart Migration

• Cart Migration is a web application which can be installed on Source Store or Target Store or a third party server.

• Cart Migration should be placed in a stable hosting or in localhost.• It also must not block connection to Source Store and Target Store• PHP Compatibility: PHP 5.3 or later.• Required PHP extensions:• pdo_mysql• curl• Required PHP configurations:• memory_limit no less than 128Mb• allow_url_fopen must be On• base64_decode should be allowed

II. SETUPAfter downloading the product zip file from our Store, please extract it into a folder. The package consists of two main parts: Cart Migration Application (“cartmigration” folder) and Connector (“cartmigration_connector” folder).

1. Cart migration setup

Cart Migration is a web application which can be installed on Source Store or Target Store or a third party server.

1.1. Upload “cartmigration” folder to your server, make sure it can be accessed via an url. Example:http://yourserver.com/cartmigration/1.2. Chmod folder app to 07771.3. Create an empty database in your server, this database will be used by Cart Migration to store migration tracking data.1.4. Go to http://yourserver.com/cartmigration/, you will see the Setup page. Enter the database login information here, Click “Setup”.

2. Source and Target Store Plugin Setup

• Copy and upload “cartmigration_connector” into Source Cart and Target Cart root folder. After finished please make sure Connector can be reached at:

• http(s)://yourstore.com/cartmigration_connector/connector.php• Note: It is only required to upload the connector in case your Source Cart or Target

Cart is self-hosted.

If you have any problem reaching the link please ensure you have htaccess configured correctly and the file has execution permission.• For security, please open connector.php, find this very first line:

define(‘LECM_TOKEN’, ‘123456’);• And change “123456” to another string, this will be used to enter to the Migration

Form (Cart Token) and acts like “password” to prevent unauthorized data access to your source store.

• Note: please do not use special characters in token or else the migration tool might fail to work, it should contain number and alphabet characters only. Example:

Good token: 12ab34cd56Bad token: #Fr35h#Mi!5

III. ENTER LICENSE KEYLicense Key is an encoded string which comes with your download package. This key is needed to activate your Zen Cart to Shopify Migration Tool

1. After purchasing the product, please login to our store and enter “My downloadable products” section. Here you will find download link and license key for the download package.

2. Go to http://yourserver.com/cartmigration/, click on Settings, and copy and paste your license key here, click Submit.

IV. MIGRATIONReturn to http://yourserver.com/cartmigration/, you are now at Step 1 of migration process.The migration will go through 3 simple steps. Just hit “Next” when you finish one step to advance.

Step 1: Source Cart Setup• For this category, you need to go to backend of your cart, export necessary data

files as guide in the upload form. Example:

Step 2: Target Cart SetupTarget Cart Setup should be similar to Source Cart setup. Please read the above section for details.

Step 3: Migration Configuration• Languages Mapping: If your Source Cart is multilingual, corresponding languages

( or storeviews) should be available in Target Store. You may need to create additional languages in Target Store to avoid data loss.

• Currencies Mapping: Assign Source Cart currencies to proper Target Store currencies. Creating currencies in Target Store may be needed.

• Orders Status Mapping: Assign Source Cart order statuses to proper Target Store order statuses. Creating additional order statues in Target Store may be needed.

• Entities to Migrate: select all entities to migrate or just a part of them.

Additional Options:• Migrate recent data: if you choose this option, it will migrate new data only. Supposed you

have just finished a full migration from your current Source store to Target store, after that Source store is still live and continue getting new data, and you want to get your Target store updated with the new data, select this feature to avoid starting over again.

• Clear current data on Target Store before Migration: if you choose this option, all current products, categories, manufacturers, customers, orders, product reviews, taxes will be cleared.

• Migrate categories and products SEO URLs: if you choose this option, old SEF urls of source will be preserved in Target Store, allowing you to maintain your Pagerank.

• Transfer images in product descriptions to Target Store: download all images in product description into your store so that it won’t have to refer back to your source store or anywhere else for images.

• Preserve Customer IDs on Target Store: this will help you preserve your old Customer IDs for easier reference.

• Preserve Order IDs on Target Store: this will help you preserve your old Order IDs for easier reference

• Note: Some additional options might not be available for some specific Source Carts or Target Carts.

Step 4: Zen Cart to Shopify migration• The migration will take place automatically in this final step. In order for it to

progress, you should not close your browser of remove Source Cart Connector.• After the migration is completed, click on “Clear Cache and ReIndex Data” to finish.

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